Death cap (Amanita phalloides), Amanitaceae. De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images hide caption
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Photographer Taylor Lockwood found the rare mushroom Hypocreopsis rhododendri growing in the United States, a discovery that delighted scientists and mushroom devotees. Taylor F. Lockwoood hide caption
The hallucinogenic chemical psilocybin produced in some mushrooms helped people with major depression in a study that also included supportive psychotherapy. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Oakland City Council has voted to decriminalize the possession and use of entheogenic, or psychoactive, plants and fungi. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
Nick Spero hunts for morel mushrooms somewhere in Maryland... Maia Stern/NPR hide caption
Enoki mushrooms have been used in Eastern medicine for hundreds of years and are now being studied for their anti-tumor properties. Mary Shattock/Flickr hide caption
This year the U.S. Forest Service is only issuing personal-use permits in Montana's national forests. Nicky Ouellet for NPR hide caption
Banned From National Forest, For-Profit Mushroom Pickers Go Underground
Mature death caps in West Marin's Point Reyes National Seashore in December. Gabriela Quirós/KQED hide caption
Shiitake logs last between four to six years and give farmers several spawns of mushroom each year. Keith Weller/USDA hide caption
N. gardneri mushrooms grow at the base of young babassu palms in Brazil. A bland tan by day, the fungi emit an eerie green light by night. Michele P. Verderane/IP-USP hide caption
Mushrooms from a farm in Chester County, Pa., dubbed the "Mushroom Capital of America." Rich Roberts/Flickr hide caption
This grocery store packet of porcini mushrooms contained a surprise: three species of fungi never before named or described. Bryn Dentinger/Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew hide caption
Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook, snaps the end off a mushroom in a Washington, D.C.-area park. When broken, the inside turns blue, identifying it as an inedible species of bolete. The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
Richard Blais' Earth & Turf Burger, served at the Flip Burger Boutique in Atlanta, is 50 percent beef, 50 percent mushroom. Courtesy of Flip Burger Boutique hide caption
Four hundred million pounds of mushrooms come from farms in Chester County, Pa. Eliza Barclay/NPR hide caption